Re: 0x8DDD0018 error, Yet Required Services ARE Enabled

"dougjp" <dougjp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:05C82E76-C74B-4FDB-8DED-CD2A5E56B4C0@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Charles, however it didn't work. Same as the solution for this error
> as recommended by MS didn't work.
>
> Oli, what DID work for me was THIS:
>
> Open services.msc Go to " Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator". If you
> have disabled it as I had (because it is said to be a potential security risk
> as mentioned in numerous places on the web), right click on it, go to
> 'Properties', change to 'manual' and Apply that.
>
> Now Update works again. Microsoft should amend its help screens as it isn't
> just those services it mentions!!

Thanks for posting your solution, dougjp.

It's true that RPC is a dependency of BITS.
And normally BITS is started manually so that having its dependency
missing might be harder to notice.

Were there at least some messages in the WindowsUpdate.log
to clue you in about the reason for the failure?